Q u o t e: Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but it seems the changes being made to guilds in the expansion benefit large guilds and provide a disincentive to join smaller, more specialized, guilds. At the moment, aside from raiding capabilities, guilds are on equal footing, regardless of size.

This is a concern to me since my mains are in a guild that provides some RL social benefits that would probably not be present in other, larger guilds. We prefer not to advertise for members as we tend to recruit from friends and friends of friends, but all the same, we're still a small guild due to scheduling conflicts.

It sounds like the new guild advancements are going to pretty much shut us out.

Edit: fixed title

Guild advancement is based on the performance of the top 20 producers within the guild. If you have a small guild of 20 (or less), then every person's contributions will count.

My problem with this is, it reduces the idea that you could be in ANY guild and run with people. It's going to make people require you to be in their guild to run for the benefits it will give them... That's not so great.